Onam Songs is normally released with the festival of onam which is celebrated in Kerala state of India. Onam which is celebrated with a mythical story of a king who was ruled 1000s of years before. The above king (Mahabali) said to have received a blessing from Lord Vishnu which enabled him to visit his people once in a year even after his time, as long as the world exists. So the Kerala people started celebrating that day with lot of food, games and cultural activities to welcome their beloved king.
Onam Cultural activities:
Onam celebration mark with lot of cultural activities in Kerala. Each and every village will be conducting their own cultural activities. Traditionally women of neighboring houses will practice and dance thiruvathira kali with rhythmic steps of Indian classical dance against thirucvathira songs. Normally thiruvathira songs will be Hindu devotional songs or songs connected with Kerala traditions.
Ona pattukal or onam songs:
To keep the festival spirit high there is lot of onam songs are available. In olden days it was vocal songs composed locally and sang. Some of them were famous.
But in modern days recording companies based in south India has starts to release onam songs in every year for onam. Now a days the competition is such that the quality of the songs is excellent, as otherwise you will not be able to survive in the market. Onam marks with big spending in Kerala and malayalees. And the recording companies are trying to utilize the opportunities to claim their slice in that money.
Some years before only one or two studios were on the market but as the price of recording equipments has come down and are even affordable for small labels. Accordingly each and every recording group started releasing their own album with onapattukal (onam songs).
But still people give high value for the olden day onam songs which has been released by tharangani studio of madras. Most of the songs released by tharangani at that time was sung by legendry Indian Singer padmasree K.J. Yesudas and Padmasree K.S. Chitra. That has added the value of those albums with the music loving people of Kerala who are really font of golden voice of Yesudas.
Out of the onam songs released the onapattukal –vol-1 from tharangani is most famous and we can see the cassettes of that album in almost in every malayaly house.
We can see lot of Greeting card sites is also using these songs to make background music for their onam greeting card.
1. 365greetings.com:- they have lot of flash greeting card for onam with onam songs as their music at their onam cards section.
